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they acclaimed. Hence also among them the houses of the gods are recorded to be tombs of the dead, as Clement relates in his Protrepticus to the Greeks, adducing the Greeks themselves as witnesses for his account. If it pleases you, then, hear again the manner of this man writing thus: 2.6.1 7. CONCERNING THEIR SO-CALLED SANCTUARIES OF THE

GODS BEING TOMBS OF THE DEAD “With good reason, then, superstition, having taken its beginning from somewhere, has become a source of senseless evil; then, not being checked, but coming to increase, flowing copiously it becomes the creator of many demons, making hecatombs and celebrating festivals and erecting statues and building temples, which indeed—for I will not be silent about this, but I will also expose them—are euphemistically called temples, but have become tombs, that is, the tombs have been named temples. But you, even now, might forget your superstition, being ashamed to honor tombs. 2.6.2 In the temple of Athena in Larissa on the acropolis is the tomb of Acrisius, and in Athens on the acropolis that of Cecrops, as Antiochus says in the ninth book of his 2.6.3 Histories. And what of Erichthonius? Is he not buried in the temple of Polias, and Immarus, son of Eumolpus and Daeira, is he not in the precinct of the Eleusinium 2.6.4 beneath the acropolis, and have not the daughters of Celeus been buried in Eleusis? Why should I list to you the women from the Hyperboreans? They are called Hyperoche and Laodice, they have been buried in the Artemision in Delos, and it is in the sanctuary of Delian Apollo. 2.6.5 Leander says that Cleochus was buried in Miletus in the Didymaeum. Here the monument of Leucophryne is not worthy to pass by; following Zeno of Myndus, she is buried in the sanctuary of Artemis in Magnesia; nor indeed the altar of Apollo in Telmessus; they relate that this too is the tomb of 2.6.6 Telmessus the seer. And Ptolemy, son of Agesarchus, in the first book of his work On Philopator says that in Paphos, in the sanctuary of Aphrodite, 2.6.7 Cinyras and the descendants of Cinyras were buried. But indeed, if I were to go through the tombs worshipped by you, not even all of time would suffice me; but if no shame for your audacious deeds comes upon you, then you who are completely dead go about having put your trust in the dead; O wretched ones, what is this evil you are suffering?” 2.6.8 And after a little he says: “The emperor of the Romans has reverently deified another new god in Egypt, and almost among the Greeks too; this man consecrated his beloved Antinous, who had become exceedingly beautiful, 2.6.9 just as Zeus did Ganymede. For desire that has no fear is not easily restrained; and now men worship the sacred nights of Antinous, which the lover who kept vigil with him knew were shameful.” And he adds: “And now the tomb of the beloved is a temple of Antinous, and a city; and just as, I suppose, the temples, so also the tombs are objects of wonder, pyramids and mausoleums and labyrinths, other temples of the dead, as those are tombs of the gods.” 2.6.10 And again after a little: “Come then, let us also briefly survey the games and put an end to these funeral festivals, the Isthmian and Nemean and Pythian and, in addition to these, the Olympian. At Pytho, then, the Pythian serpent is worshipped and the festival of the snake is proclaimed the Pythia, and at Isthmus the sea cast up a pitiful piece of filth and the Isthmian games lament Melicertes, and at Nemea another child, Archemorus, is buried, and the funeral rite for the child is called the Nemea. And Pisa among you, O Panhellenes, is the tomb of a Phrygian charioteer, and the Olympian games, the libations for Pelops, are appropriated by the Zeus of Phidias.” 2.6.11 8. WHAT THE OPINION OF THE ANCIENTS CONCERNING THE GODS WAS This man says these things. but you, the account from the beginning

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ἐπεφήμισαν. ἔνθεν αὐτοῖς καὶ οἱ τῶν θεῶν οἶκοι νεκρῶν εἶναι τάφοι μνημονεύονται, ὡς ὁ Κλήμης ἐν τῷ πρὸς Ἕλληνας Προτρεπτικῷ ἱστορεῖ, τοῦ λόγου μάρτυρας αὐτοὺς Ἕλληνας ἐπαγόμενος. εἰ δή σοι φίλον, αὖθις καὶ τούτου τόνδε γράφοντος ἄκουε τὸν τρόπον· 2.6.1 ζʹ. ΠΕΡΙ ΤΟΥ ΝΕΚΡΩΝ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΤΑΦΟΥΣ ΤΑ ΚΑΛΟΥΜΕΝΑ ΑΥΤΩΝ ΙΕΡΑ ΤΩΝ

ΘΕΩΝ «Εἰκότως ἄρα ἀρχήν ποθεν ἡ δεισιδαιμονία λαβοῦσα κακίας ἀνοήτου γέγονε πηγή· ἔπειτα μὴ ἀνακοπεῖσα, ἀλλ' εἰς ἐπίδοσιν ἐλθοῦσα πολλὴ δὴ ῥυεῖσα δημιουργὸς πολλῶν καθίσταται δαιμόνων, ἑκατόμβας ποιοῦσα καὶ πανηγύρεις ἐπιτελοῦσα καὶ ἀγάλματα ἀνιστᾶσα καὶ νεὼς ἀνοικοδομοῦσα, οὓς δὴ οὐδὲ γὰρ οὐδὲ τοῦτο σιωπήσομαι, πρὸς δὲ καὶ αὐτοὺς ἐλέγξω νεὼς μὲν εὐφήμως ὀνομαζομένους, τάφους δὲ γενομένους, τουτέστι τοὺς τάφους νεὼς ἐπικεκλημένους. ὑμεῖς δὲ ἀλλὰ κἂν νῦν δεισιδαιμονίας ἐκλάθεσθε, τοὺς τάφους τιμᾶν αἰσχυνόμενοι. 2.6.2 Ἐν τῷ ναῷ τῆς Ἀθηνᾶς ἐν Λαρίσσῃ ἐν τῇ ἀκροπόλει τάφος ἐστὶν Ἀκρισίου,Ἀθήνησι δὲ ἐν τῇ ἀκροπόλει Κέκροπος, ὥς φησιν Ἀντίοχος ἐν τῷ ἐνάτῳ τῶν 2.6.3 ἱστοριῶν. τί δὲ Ἐριχθόνιος; οὐχὶ ἐν τῷ νεῲ τῆς Πολιάδος κεκήδευται, Ἴμμαρος δὲ ὁ Εὐμόλπου καὶ ∆αείρας οὐχὶ ἐν τῷ περιβόλῳ τοῦ Ἐλευσινίου 2.6.4 τοῦ ὑπὸ τῇ ἀκροπόλει, αἱ δὲ Κελεοῦ θυγατέρες ἐν Ἐλευσῖνι τετάφαται; τί σοι καταλέγω τὰς ἐξ Ὑπερβορέων γυναῖκας; Ὑπερόχη καὶ Λαοδίκη κέκλησθον, ἐν τῷ Ἀρτεμισίῳ ἐν ∆ήλῳ κεκήδευσθον, τὸ δὲ ἐν τῷ Ἀπόλλωνος τοῦ ∆ηλίου 2.6.5 ἐστὶν ἱερῷ. Λέανδρος δὲ Κλέοχον ἐν Μιλήτῳ τεθάφθαι ἐν τῷ ∆ιδυμαίῳ φησίν. ἐνταῦθα τῆς Λευκοφρύνης τὸ μνημεῖον οὐκ ἄξιον παρελθεῖν ἑπομένους Ζήνωνι τῷ Μυνδίῳ ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ τῆς Ἀρτέμιδος ἐν Μαγνησίᾳ κεκήδευται· οὐδὲ μὴν τὸν ἐν Τελμησσῷ βωμὸν τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος· μνῆμα εἶναι καὶ τοῦτον 2.6.6 Τελμησσέως τοῦ μάντεως ἱστοροῦσι. Πτολεμαῖος δὲ ὁ τοῦ Ἀγησάρχου ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ τῶν περὶ τὸν Φιλοπάτορα ἐν Πάφῳ λέγει ἐν τῷ τῆς Ἀφρο2.6.7 δίτης ἱερῷ Κινύραν τε καὶ τοὺς Κινύρου ἀπογόνους κεκηδεῦσθαι. ἀλλὰ γὰρ ἐπιόντι μοι τοὺς προσκυνουμένους ὑμῖν τάφους ἐμοὶ μὲν οὐδ[ὲ] ὁ πᾶς ἂν ἀρκέσαι χρόνος· ὑμᾶς δὲ εἰ μὴ ὑπεισέρχεταί τις αἰσχύνη τῶν τολμωμένων, νεκροὶ ἄρα τέλεον ὄντες νεκροῖς πεπιστευκότες περιέρχεσθε· ἆ δειλοί, τί κακὸν τόδε πάσχετε;» 2.6.8 Καὶ μετ' ὀλίγα φησί· «Καινὸν δὲ ἄλλον ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ, ὀλίγου δεῖν καὶ παρ' Ἕλλησι, σεβασμίως τεθείακε θεὸν ὁ βασιλεὺς ὁ Ῥωμαίων· τὸν ἐρώμενον ὡραιότατον σφόδρα γενό2.6.9 μενον Ἀντίνοον ἀνιέρωσεν οὗτος, ὡς Γανυμήδην ὁ Ζεύς. οὐ γὰρ κωλύεται ῥᾳδίως ἐπιθυμία φόβον οὐκ ἔχουσα· καὶ νύκτας ἱερὰς τὰς Ἀντινόου προσκυνοῦσιν ἄνθρωποι νῦν, ἃς αἰσχρὰς ἠπίστατο ὁ συναγρυπνήσας ἐραστής.» Καὶ ἐπάγει· «Ἤδη δὲ ὁ τάφος τοῦ ἐρωμένου νεώς ἐστιν Ἀντινόου καὶ πόλις· καθάπερ δέ, οἶμαι, οἱ ναοὶ οὕτω καὶ οἱ τάφοι θαυμάζονται, πυραμίδες δὴ καὶ μαυσώλ<ε>ια καὶ λαβύρινθοι, ἄλλοι ναοὶ τῶν νεκρῶν, ὡς ἐκεῖνοι τάφοι τῶν θεῶν.» 2.6.10 Καὶ πάλιν μετ' ὀλίγα· «Ἴθι δὴ καὶ τοὺς ἀγῶνας ἐν βραχεῖ περιοδεύσωμεν καὶ τὰς ἐπιτυμβίους ταυτασὶ πανηγύρεις καταλύσωμεν, Ἴσθμιά τε καὶ Νέμεα καὶ Πύθια καὶ τὰ ἐπὶ τούτοις Ὀλύμπια. Πυθοῖ μὲν οὖν ὁ δράκων ὁ Πύθιος θρησκεύεται καὶ τοῦ ὄφεως ἡ πανήγυρις καταγγέλλεται Πύθια, Ἰσθμοῖ δὲ σκύβαλον προσέπτυσεν ἐλεεινὸν ἡ θάλασσα καὶ Μελικέρτην ὀδύρεται τὰ Ἴσθμια, Νεμέασι δὲ ἄλλο παιδίον Ἀρχέμορος κεκήδευται καὶ τοῦ παιδίου ὁ ἐπιτάφιος προσαγορεύεται Νέμεα. Πῖσα δ' ἐστὶν ἐν ὑμῖν τάφος, ὦ Πανέλληνες, ἡνιόχου Φρυγός, καὶ τοῦ Πέλοπος τὰς χοὰς τὰ Ὀλύμπια ὁ Φειδίου σφετερίζεται Ζεύς.» 2.6.11 ηʹ. ΠΟΙΑ ΤΙΣ ΗΝ Η ΤΩΝ ΠΑΛΑΙΩΝ ΠΕΡΙ ΘΕΩΝ ∆ΟΞΑ Ταῦτα μὲν οὗτος. σὺ δὲ τὸν λόγον ἐξ ἀρχῆς